About Me
Since childhood, he's had the unique ability - he would call it a curse - to recognize these beings for what they truly are beneath their fragile tissue of disguise. He sees their true faces, either beatific or demonic. Driven to suicide, in his youth, by this terrifying burden that no one understood, Constantine hoped for the peace it would bring but got instead a 2-minute tour of the depths of hell, a nightmare beyond imagination, before being resuscitated and snapped back into life.
Since that moment, he's known the hellish fate that awaits him when his life on earth is ended, and has been trying desperately to change it. Finding the traditional path to salvation closed to him, he resolves to earn entrance to heaven by waging war on the demon half-breeds on earth. An expert in demonology and black magic as well as an accomplished con man when he wants to be, Constantine uses sacred relics as weapons, along with his wits, his fists and anything else at his disposal to send countless hordes back to the underworld in shreds.
But he is an unlikely hero. Spurred not by any benevolent intention, he battles evil only to buy his way into a heaven that is closed to him, and grows increasingly cynical as these efforts have no effect.
Called to the site of another demonic possession by his old friend Father Hennessy, a weary priest whose body and soul have seen better days, he prepares for yet another exorcism. This time it's a young girl in the grip of the underworld, the latest in a series of countless exorcisms that Constantine has performed and yet this one suddenly feels different to him. With disbelief and then increasing alarm Constantine realizes that the demon inside this particular child is fighting not for possession of her tiny body but for a way to break through it and enter the physical world, a blatant breach of the age-old balance. This cannot be happening.
